Cigarette holder



Apr. 10, 1923; 1,451,235

T. RAJE CIGARETTE HOLDER Fj led Sept. 22, 1920 71 11711111111!IIIIIIQII," I

Patented Apr. 10, 1923.

'rnon new, or LOS enemas, CALIFORNIA.

CIGARETTE HOLDER.

AppIication filed. September 22, 1920. Serial no. 412,064.

To all whom it may cohcern:

Be it known that I, THOR RAJE, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Los An eles, in the county of Los Angeles, State 5 ofalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements. in Cigarette.Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cigarette holders of the charactenshown in mypending ap- 1 plication for patent, filed May 19, 1920, Serial No.384,757, embodying means for ejecting the cigarettes from the holder andmeans for holding an absorbent medicated.

plug, or core in the body of the holder. 5 The object of my presentimprovements is to provide a form of holder in which the stem isslidably disposed in the body and carries a bushing of cork or the likefor packing the jointbetween the holder and- 20 stem and for providingample space to hold the stem in position.

Another object is to provide an improved formof-plug holder attached tothe inner being employed throughout the specification 855 and in theseveral views of the drawing for indicatin the same parts.

Referring to said drawings: Fig. 1 is a lon 'tudinal section of my Iholder showing a clgarette held therein and ct) the several parts inoperative relation.

Fig. 2 is a view of the stem showing the v packing bushing on oneendpthereof.

Fig. 3 is a section of Fig. 1 on line 33. Fig. 4 is a section of thesame on line M. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the combined plug holderand ejector held on the inner end of the stem.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a form'of convoluted plug of absorbentcharacter at through which the smoke from theeigarette I is adapted tobe-filtered.

Holder H has a main body portion 1 with a chamber 2 therein adapted toreceive and hold a cigarette C at one end, and a reduced to portion anthe other and for slidab l ceiving a stem Sh Ifhe said stem carries onits inner end 4 (which may or may not be sli htly reduced in size asshown in Fig. 1)

as eeve, or bushin 5 of cork or other suitable material whic may bepreferably tall pered, as shown, to conform to the taper or curve of thebore of the body, so that when the stem is drawn backwardly in theholder the said sleeve will frictionally engage the wall of the holderand serve to hold the stem e5 firmly in position for use.

The innerend 4 of the stem also carries a combined plu holder andejecting device E, as shown in igs. 1 and 5. One end of said member Ehas a split sleeve portion 6 W adapted to fric-tionally engage theportion 4: of the stem, and the other end thereof has a downwardlyextending lip 7 connected with the sleeve portion 6 by means of alongitudinally disposed portion 8, the portions 6, 7e 7 and 8 beingintegrally formed of sheet metal. I

A plug P composed of a plurality of convolutions of absorbent materialsaturated with a suitable stiffening liquid, such asst sugar and water,for holding the convolutions together when the liquid is dry, isprovided for insertion between the inner end of the stem and the lip 7of ejector member E. Said plug when so treated will be rather as stiffand yet absorbent enough for the purpose of filterin the smoke from thecigarette, and the esignof member E is such that the plug will be heldfriction'ally in position and so that the same may be readily to removedfor the purpose of cleaning the holder and its several parts, and forthe additional purpose of substituting another plug when necessary.

The lip 7 of member E is adapted to enes gage the inner end of thecigarette C and when the cigarette is to be ejected from the holder thestem S may be forced inwardly in the holder H so that said lip willforce the cigarette outwardly from the open end we of said holder.

It will be understood that all of the several parts of my improveddevice may be readily separated for anypur ose, the stem being removedfrom the hol er through the large open end and the plu removed from themember E andthe mem er E detached from position on the end of the stem.

.A head or other suitable element S ma be provided on the outer end ofthe stem 1%- for engagement with the end 3 of the holder so as to limitthe movement of the stern in the holder, as shown inFig. 1.

What I'claim, is:

A cigarette holder, comprising a body open at both ends and having oneend thereof reduced, astem slidably held in the reduced end of said bodyand having an enlargenient thereon for engaging the reduced end of saidbody for preventing the withdrawal of the stem therethrough, and aprojection extending inwardly from said enlargement, the opposite end ofsaid body being adapted to receive and hold a ciga rette, a membersupported within said body and having a sleeve frictionally held on theinner end of said stem, and a lip spaoed therefrom for engagement withthe inner end of the cigarette, whereby an absorbent element may beheldbetween said lip and the inner end of said stem for filtering the srnokeand for ejecting the cigarette; from sald body when sald stem is movedinwardly

